Charlotte’s 200th

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Acknowledgements

I wish to acknowledge the assistance given to me by K. E. Smith, the UK Editor of Brontë Studies, both for the special issue of Brontë Studies he produced in 2013 entitled ‘The Brontës and Contemporary Society’, which was an excellent model to follow, and for sparing time for some ‘Charlotte talk’. Amber Adams, Editor of Brontë Studies was, as always, the calm and helpful presence needed by all anxious contributors. I am also grateful to Sarah Fermi, the Brontë Society’s Publications Officer, for supporting my rash offer to take on this task; to Nick Hunt, Maney’s Production Editor, for guiding me through the technicalities of downloading and file conversions, and to Peter Walker, Amber’s Editorial Assistant, for doing both. Lastly, I apologize to my wife, Pam, for spending so much time with an older woman!

Notes

¹ Brontë Society Transactions, Volume 11, No. 4 (Part 59), 1949, p. 247. Reprinted from Letters and Journals of Queen Victoria, edited by G. E. Buckle and A. C. Benson.

² Robert Barnard, ‘What does Wuthering Heights mean?’ Brontë Studies, Volume 23, Part 2, October 1998, pp. 112–19.

³ Elizabeth Rigby. Anonymous review of Jane Eyre in the Quarterly Review, December 1848.

⁴ Tanya Gold, ‘Reader, I Shagged Him’, Guardian, 25 March 2005. Quoted in Saverio Tomaiuolo, ‘From “Emma” to Emma Brown: Charlotte Brontë’s Legacies’. Brontë Studies, Volume 38, Part 3, September 2013, pp. 195–205, 195.